New subject: New user needs help with DNS setup

11 Jan 2010

Hi Jan,

Think you missed out Graeme and the list there so I've linked it in
here for you :)

Is having two DNS servers a requirement for hosting a domain? I know
it makes sense, but I think you can usually get away with just having
one for testing purposes.

Just my thoughts on it anyway.

James

2010/1/11 Jan Henkins &lt;jan(a)henkins.za.net&gt;et>:
...
  Hello James and Graeme,

 James' setup here (with the dot at the end) will work, although there is one
 more important thing: You have to have at least two DNS servers to
 successfully host a domain!

 So in the order of preparation:

 (1) Get your domain(s) registered and reserved (you have already done that)
 (2) Set up your DNS as per the instructions. This is the most important and
 difficult part, although it's not really all that difficult with all the
 help you will no doubt get on this list! ;-) One gotcha - make sure that
 your reverse lookup for your primary DNS server´s IP is set up correctly. If
 you're not sure how it's done, this is controlled by Bitfolk. I can remember
 that there is a way to set this up yourself in the Xen panel, please
 somebody on the list correct me if I'm wrong.
 (3) Arrange for a secondary DNS. Here you have a choice:
    (a) Get a friend to act as secondary
    (b) Ask Andy (Bitfolk) to act as secondary by following the instructions
 here: http://www.bitfolk.com/secondary_dns.html

 My advice would be (b).

 Once you have the above three bits set up and you have tested it that it
 actually works as it should, then you can edit your domains in your Godaddy
 control panel to point to the two DNS servers as you have set it up in your
 DNS zone file.

 Once your two domains are set up in DNS, you will have the wonderful
 experience in hacking away at your config to get the two domains set up as
 virtual mail and web hostings (a bit technical but real fun to play with).

 On 11/01/10 21:17, James Gregory wrote:

 I did - after ns.simmo.gs in the SOA bit, you need to make sure to
 include a dot!

 ; domain                  ; nameserver   ; email addy
 simmo.gs. IN SOA   ns.simmo.gs.   you.simmo.gs. (

 James

 2010/1/11 James Gregory&lt;jgxenite(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:

 Hi Graeme,

 I wouldn't worry about it - even the best of us forget these kind of
 things from time to time! I don't know what difference there is
 between Debian and Ubuntu, but this is how you do it in Ubuntu as far
 as I know:

 /etc/bind/named.conf.local is for your zone information, so something
 like this:

 zone "simmo.gs" {
    type master;
    zone "db.simmo.gs";
 };

 /etc/bind/db.simmo.gs is the file containing your NS, A, etc. records:

 simmo.gs. IN SOA ns.simmo.gs you.simmo.gs. (
                         20100111      ; Serial
 ; Defaults below as far as I'm aware!
                         180m            ; Refresh after 3 hours
                        10m             ; retry after 10 mins
                        1w              ; expire after
                        1h             ; negative caching TTL
 )

 ; Nameservers
       IN NS ns.simmo.gs.

 ; Hosts
 ns IN A x.x.x.x   ; replace that with NS IP address
 www IN A x.x.x.x    ; replace with your webserver IP address

 That's probably the most basic config you can get away. It might or
 might not work - hopefully if I've missed something out, someone will
 correct me!

 James

 2010/1/11 Graeme Simpson&lt;graeme(a)butterware.co.uk&gt;uk>:

 Hi Bitfolks,

 I've just signed up to Bitfolk and could do with a bit of assistance
 with
 DNS.

 I've signed up for a couple of domain names with godaddy.com. I've
 bought
 simmo.gs and goodwithwords.eu.

 I'm not certain of the order I should be doing things and the
 configuration
 I should be setting up on my debian vps box.

 Does anyone have any guidance they could offer? Or even a sample zone
 file
 that I could copy.

 I have done this sort of thing before, but it's been a while and I
 appear to
 have forgotten swathes. I won't be offended to be treated like a numpty!

 Cheers,
 Graeme

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 Jan Henkins

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